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39 cover. It is an object of, the twist invention ing has been quite completed;

Patented-June 13, 1939 I g 2,162,235

UNi-TED s'rA'ras PATENT orrica aicazas a Mllguerite n. Vaughm'Natiek, Mm, alslgnor to Natick Box and Board 00., Natick, Massu a cornotation of Massachusetts Application June'z2, 1937, Serial No. 149,651"

9 Claims. (01, 2223-52) This invention pertains to boxes, and inore parcardboard or other sheet material may readily ticularly to folding boxes made from material such be applied without recourse to the use of adhesive as cardboard or the like, and relates more espeor the like, and which "will furnish an adequate cially to an improved box and to a handle where- .means whereby the box may be carried; which 5 by the box may conveniently be carried. As heremay be applied quickly and easily; and which will 5 in illustrated by way of .example, the box is of act as a lock to hold the box closed, but which the type commonly known as a "suit boxcomis readily removable to permit the box to be prising a shallow body portion and a cover of subopened wh'e'n desired. stantially the same depth as the body portion and Further objects and advantages of the invena w of such dimensions as to flt snugly over the body tion will be pointed out in more detail in the fol- 1o portionwhen the box is closed. I i lowing description and by reference to the accom- Usually the body portion and cover of such a panying drawing wherein: box are wholly independent, and after the con- Fig.1 is a perspective view showing the box tents have been placed in the body portion and set up and closed, and with the handle in place;

18 the cover has been put in position, it is necessary Fig. 2 is a plan view of the box of Fig. 1, with 16 to-wrap or tie the box in order tohold these porcertain parts broken away to showthe interior tions together, and to aflord convenient means for construction; carrying it. i Fig. 3' is a .plan view of a handle blank, inacobject of the present invention is to procordance with one desirable modification;-

"An a .vide'a box which, when closed, needs no wrapping Fig. 4 shows the handle blank of Fig. 3 after it go or tie cord to hold it closed,'and which may readily has been folded in readiness for application to the be openedwhen desired without resort to cut-- box; 7 ting or breaking oi any part. Q mg. 5 is a fragmentary section, partlybroken Boxes 01' the kind above referred to are usually awa substantially. n the line -5 f Fi 1,

shippedin the form of flat blanks which are set showing the box as set upand closed and with 25 up by-the' user, and if the box body and cover the handlein place; g V

are independent parts, it is necessary to perform v Fig. 6 is a transverse section substantially on w ndependent setting 'up operations prelimithe line 8-! or Fig. 4, showing the handle during to provide a box consisting of'a single blank com- Fig. 'l is a view similar to Fig. 4, but showing a prising parts which, when properly folded and handle of slightly modified construction; interlocked, form a container, for example, of the Fig. 8 is a plan view of the handle shown in suit-box type, including a body and cover, ready Fig. 7; and

bending, folding. or the like assumes the form of portions 2 and respectively, designed to form 40 a carryinghandle when the box is setup, but the the opposite side: walls of the completed box, it provision of an integral handlenecessitates'the". being assumed, for convenience in description, use of a blank of undue size and results that in use. the ox w ll e h n h positidn of material. On the other hand, when ,it has Dims-X1. The part 2 is provided with end flaps sive, rivets or the like,-although such mode of 3 flap Q havingan extension 9", while the part i m attachment of a handle to a foldin box is imisfurnished'with a top flap Ill having'an exten-' lo practical from the standpoint of the ordinary sion ll. The blank is designed to be shipped "A further object of the inventio'nis to 1110- be preferable to fold down the extensions 8' and vide an iinpioved box and handle such that, after il of the flaps 9 and II, respectively, before shipw thebox has 'been'set up and filled, a handle of meat and to or the extensions in place by means ll ing the integral projection the hand grip part of the handle. To

I8, is integrally attached a second member ly joined to the part 2| 6, along the. line 20 so that they lie'in a plane substantially perpe dicular to the part ll of the folded blank, the flap 23- being proiected'through the opening 22,

of rivets H or other suitable fastening means. These extensions 9 and l furnish added stiffness to the top wall of the box and provide adequate anchorage for the handle device.

The blank also comprises the portion signed to form the bottom of the parts are disposed in the position shown in Fig. 1. The flaps 9 and I0 are furnished with elongate slots 12 and i3 respectively, and the extensions 9"- and Ill! are preferably provided withrecesses l4 so as not to overlap the slots l2 and I3 when the extensions are folded down. 1

The handle blank l5 (Fig. 3) is made from suitable material such as cardboard and comprises the elongate anchorage member l6 hav- I'I intended to form this extension l1, at the 'fold line l9 substantially identical in contour with the part l1 and designed to form the second ply of the handle. To this part I! is integrally joined, along the fold line 2., an abutment member 2| which may sired, be as long as the part IE, but which for practical purposes need not be so long as the anchorage element IS. The part I1 is furnished with an opening 22 of a size suitable to receive the fingers of the handof the user. The'handle part I! is cut along the curved line It. to provide an abutment flap 23 of a size substantially equal to that of the opening 22, the flap being integralalong the fold line 20, but being otherwise free.

' This handle blank is folded along the line is so as to bring the parts into the position shown in and then the parts 2| and 23 are bent and the parts l1 'and I! brought into contact so that the handle assumes the form shown in Figs.11 and 5. As shown in the latter view, the parts It, 2 I, and 23 of the handle;under-' the. central part of flap lie the inner surface of Y portion of the top portion of the box when in use and so distribute the load over a substantial area of that top flap that there is little danger of breaking or buckling the box even when plane, extend well beyond the edges of the slot l2.

In assembling the handle with the box, the grip the handle is first thrust outwardly through the slot l2 in flap 9, and then by bending I ll outwardly,

portion of the handle may be passed through slot I! in flap II and the latter allowed to overlie the flap I asshownin Fig. 5. It will be noted that the handle, when inserted in the slots l2 and ii in the flaps} and ",respectively, of the box.

constitutes a locking means which keeps the box closed so lon as the handle is in position, so that,

no wrapping or tying means is required.

'Z and 8.showl a modified construction wherein the handle device is in general similar to tabs and 25 may be D8-l't I'I!,-as shown that above described but wherein the opening 22 in the handle member 11. is provided at its opposite ends with integral tabs 24 and 25 y when this handle has been'inserted in the box, these bent atright-angles to the in Fig. 8, so as tooverlie the the top flap l0 and thus prevent top surface of ample, it is to box when the tom, side and end slots therein, and a material comprising an elongate anchorage eleslots therein, and a handle flap 9 of the body heavily loaded, or that the "handle will be pulled out while the box is bein 'fingers of the hand in gripping the grip tions of said plies extending through the slots in said plies extending through the handle from dropping down into the box, even if the latter is not completely filled.

While I have herein described certain desirable embodiments of the invention by way of exbe understood that such embodiments are in noway restrictive of the invention,

but that the invention is to be regarded as iri-' elusive of all equivalent constructions such as fall within the terms of the appended claims.

I claim:

l. A one-piece folding box comprising a botwalls, and overlapping top flaps, said overlapping flaps having registering handle device of stiff ment'arrangedpso that its edge underlies the inner surface of the innermost top flap, and an abutment having a broad surface which engages the inner surface of said lattertop flap, the handle device also including a portion which projects outwardly through said registering slots and which isprovided with a hand grip.

2. A one-piece folding box comprising a bottom, side and end walls and overlapping top flaps, said overlapping flaps having registering device of stifi sheet material, said handledevice comprising a hand grip portion consisting of a twoly thiclmess of the material and anchorage means disposed within the box, said anchorage means comprising a .longitudina y extending element integral with one fold ofthe grip portion and substantially coplanar therewith, said means also comprising a sheet r other ply of the grip portion. t

3. A one-piece folding box comprising a not tom, side and end walls, and a'top, said top having a slot therein, and a handle device of stiff sheet material comprising an anchorage element of a length substantially greater than that of the slot in the top and which engages the inner surface of the top beyond the opposite ends respectively of said slot, the handle device also including an abutment having a broad face arranged to engage the sides ofthe slot, the handle device also including a part which projects outwardly through said slot and which is furnished with a hand grip.

4 A one-piece folding box comprising abettom, side and end walls, and atop, said top having a slot therein, and a handle device of stiff sheet. material, said handle device comprising a hand grip portion consisting of two plies of the sheet v material, said plies having registering openings therethrough for the reception of the the handle, porthe top flaps,'and an elongate member integral extending longitudinallyof the the opposite ends of the latter, and a transverse member integral with the otherply, one end of saidtransverse member projecting through the opening in the first ply.

5. A one-piece folding box. comprising a bottom, side and end walls, and a top, said top having a slot sheet materiaL-said handle device comprising a hand grip portion consisting of two plies of the sheet material, said plies having registering open.-

' ings' therethrough for the reception of the fingers of the hand in gripping the handle, portionsof said slot in the top, one of said plies having an elongate anchorage element disposed within the box and in the plane inner surface of said top at opposite therein, and a handle device of stiff grip portion consisting of said ply and of such length as to overlap the ends of the slot, the upper edge 01' said elongate element underlying the inner surface of the top.

6. A one-piece folding box comprising a bottom,

side and. end walls, and a top, said top having a slot therein, and a handle device oi stiff sheet I material, said handle device comprising a hand two plies of the sheet material, said plies having registering openings therethrough for the reception of the fingers of the hand in gripping the handle, portions of said plies extending through said slot in the top, one

slot at the opposite sides ofthe latter and to env gage the inner surface of the top.

'7. Ahandle blank comprising an integral piece to the other edge or said second gripper member, sai d abutment porticn including "a flap which, in the blank, substantially fills the opening in said second gripper ticn including two juxtaposed pliesgportions of said plies extending through the slot, a transverse member integral with one'of said plies underlying the top at either side of the slot, and a longitudinal member integral wit the other ply and in substantially coplanar relationship thereto, said last-named member underlying the top at each end of the slot.

9. A one-piece folding box comprising a bottom, side and end walls, and atop, said top having' a substantially centrally located slot therein, and a handle device of stifi sheet material, said handle device comprising anchorage means disposed beneath the top of the box, said anchorage means including a substantially horizontal sheet member underlying the inner surface of the top of the box at each side of the slot, and a vertical sheet member extending longitudinally oi the slot and under the inner surface of the top of the box at each end of the slot, said handie device also comprising agrip Portion which projects upwardly through the slot. 7

. MARGUERITE E. VAUGHN. 

